Mumbai: An `alert-crack squad` will be
formed in all the state-run hospitals across Maharashtra
within a month to avoid any attack on the hospital staff on
duty.
The decision was taken in a meeting of the senior
officials of Directorate of Medical Education and Research
(DMER) with the representatives of doctors and hospital staff
yesterday following protest by JJ hospital`s doctors and
staff nurses on Saturday after a patient`s relatives attacked
a resident doctor.
"It was decided that security to the hospital staff can
be given best only by those who are working in hospital and
therefore the staff union agreed to select 15-20 young and
alert staff (men and women) to make the `Alert-crack squad`,"
Milind Mhaiskar, secretary, Medical Education and Research
said.
"Instead of bringing security personnel from outside, the
union representatives felt the staff will be more sensitised
about the issue when the relatives of the patients get
emotional and resort to violence. We all felt that it can be
psychologically tackled by the staff themselves," he said.
Mhasaikar said all the hospitals will have a CCTV fixed
in the course of time which should act as a deterrent to
prevent violence within the hospital.
PTI
